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THE OPIE & ANTHONY PORTRAIT BY COJO ART JUGGERNAUT
10-13-06 POST RATED: Artsucks, Cojo, Opie, Anthony, Norton, XM Radio, Virus, Opie & Anthony, Portrait
On Thursday August 31, 2006 the syndicated cringe radio team of Gregg "Opie" Hughes and
Anthony Cumia, made their debut guest appearance on CBS's The Late Show With David
Letterman. What might have seemed to the casual Late Show viewer as an innocent ten
minute guest spot by a few popular morning drive shock jocks was actually much, much
more. It was CBS and CBS Radio's unspoken symbolic and strategic passing of the torch
from radio's old king to it's new morning golden boys.
The Opie & Anthony Show is a new breed of Talk Radio program that straddles the line
between Government censored semi-edgy radio friendly listening, and the subscription based
wild west vulgarity of uncensored, unregulated comic bloodsports.
A transient show, they more than straddle the line, they cross it in the most literal sense. At 9 AM The Opie & Anthony show signs off the terrestrial air waves (FM & AM free stations), they pack up their show materials and physically hit the street transfering from one radio format to another.
Live field mics in hand on their XM exclusive "walk over," they broadcast the two block walk down 57th street to their XM studio. There they punch back into stationary microphones for an additional 2-3 hours of unfiltered in-your-fucking-face XM Satellite beamed freedom.
The O & A "Virus" is an infectious little pill, which when taken on an open mind has the ability to infect new listeners so completely that they find themselves setting their
alarms as to not miss a minute.
I had been scheduled to be in Opie & Anthony's CBS RADIO WFNY-FM 92.3 FREE FM studio in mid-August to take photos of them for reference for a portrait I was to execute for their new studios but my invite kept getting bumped back due to summer vacations, overbookings, and the show's attendance record setting "Opie & Anthony's Traveling Virus" Comedy
Tour.
On September 6th, just six days after their Letterman appearance (3 broadcast
days) and dozens of Myspace messages back and forth with O & A Producer Steve Carlesi and a booking finally solidified.
It was 6:15 AM Wednesday morning and the sun had barely risen. I was working on no sleep
and a dumptruck full of caffeine in the form of four bottled Starbucks frappachinos I had
nervously chugged while riding the N train en route.
In this strange sleepless insomnia addled haze and after a few minutes of haggling with the building's inept lobby security I soon found myself on the fourteenth floor of O & A's (as their fans affectionatly call them) 57th street studio (the former Howard Stern Building).
As it was too early for an actual FREE FM secretary to receive me I had a seat in the reception area. I spent the first few minutes of my wait examining the craftsmanship of a giant laser cut plastic 92.3 FREE FM sign on the far wall.
The show, which started at 6:00 AM, was being pumped into reception, and I found myself once again glued to the humor of Opie, Anthony, and Jim Norton (comedian and permanent third seat you will recognize from HBO'S LUCKY LOUIE).
They were trying to figure out mathmatically the Crocodile Hunter's astronomically improbable odds of dying from a stingray barb when there have been literally only 17 other cases of stingray barb death in the entire recorded history of man, and if the video of the death would ever surface.
In mid-bit a door opened and I was escorted, and strangely interrogated by O & A show
bodyguard "Club Soda Kenny." Kenny's a giant 6'6" dopey behomith straight out of a
Steinbeck novel who used to be employed as Andrew Dice Clay's heavy back in the day. His
awkward questions and sheer unsettling enormity jarred me. He's a great character, and a comedian in his own right, but in person when approaching a stranger the charisma is stifled. He's a great guy, but not someone you want to mess with, he's a human wall. . .
-Cojo "Art Juggernaut"
Thanks to PMonk from FBA for the opening Photo
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